Colin, there appears to be a definite winter behaviour, though I don't
understand if fully. I just walked out my back door and disturbed the
Pheasant Coucal, which spends every winter in our garden, skulking through
our heavy undergrowth. It doesn't call through the winter, but is always
here. Although in summer we never have one in our garden, and we hear them
further afield around us regularly. We are in the Glasshouse Mountains area
just north of Brisbane.
Cheers,
Jill
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> Behalf Of Colin Driscoll
> Sent: Friday, 7 July 2006 8:44 AM
> To:
> Cc: 'birding aus'
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Coucal
>
>
> Thanks Mick. I had assumed that these birds moved north from our region in
> the winter but it may be that they are both cryptic and silent at
> this time
> of year and so are not as readily observed.
>
> Colin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Todd
> Sent: Thursday, 6 July 2006 7:56 PM
> To: Colin Driscoll
> Cc: 'birding aus'
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Coucal
>
> Hello Colin,
>
> I was wandering around the Macquarie Hills and Cardiff areas (around the
> former Pasminco site) (Lake Macquarie, central NSW) for work reasons this
> week and flushed Coucals at two different spots. However, your
> report about
> the Wildlife Atlas lacking local winter records intrigued me and
> so I had a
> look through my personal records.
>
> I found that I do have more summer records than winter ones.
> Nevertheless, I had some local winter records including Lake Grahamstown
> (late April), Ellalong (August), Kitchener (August), Mt Royal
> Road (June). I
> used to regularly hear them in the summer months at Toronto (under Mt
> Waring) but its been years now, since I've heard or seen them at
> this spot.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mick
>
> Michael Todd
> Wildlifing
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>
>
>
> Colin Driscoll wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I was in Werakata National Park just west of Abermain in the Cessnock
> > region today and was surprised to flush a Pheasant Coucal. I note that
> > the Atlas has very limited reporting of this bird in this region for
> > this time of year and generally at more northerly latitudes
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Colin Driscoll
> >
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